ANTHROPOLOGIST

Bengt Danielsson

1921 - 1997

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Bengt Emmerik Danielsson (6 July 1921 – 4 July 1997) was a Swedish anthropologist, writer, and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bengt Danielsson has received more than 89,393 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bengt Danielsson is the 52nd most popular anthropologist (down from 51st in 2019), the 554th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 495th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Bengt Danielsson ranks 52 out of 93Before him are Birutė Galdikas, Raymond Firth, Bill Mollison, Gilberto Freyre, Alfred Sauvy, and Helen Fisher. After him are Andrey Korotayev, Maurice Godelier, Ralph Linton, Fei Xiaotong, Edmund Leach, and Fiona Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Bengt Danielsson ranks 229Before him are Gaston Rébuffat, Gunnar Eriksson, Sune Andersson, Imre Kovács, Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, and Inge Borkh. After him are Jean Richard, Saul Zaentz, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Simin Daneshvar, Alexander Kemurdzhian, and Ida Fink. Among people deceased in 1997, Bengt Danielsson ranks 168Before him are Salvador Artigas, Sanford Meisner, René Huyghe, Georges Guétary, James A. Michener, and Brian Connolly. After him are Georgy Shonin, Robert Pinget, John Akii-Bua, Myrtle Bachelder, Tony Williams, and Afonsinho.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bengt Danielsson ranks 554 out of 1,879Before him are Viveca Sten (1959), Amalia Lindegren (1814), Sven Nilsson (1787), Torgny Lindgren (1938), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), and Ernst Fast (1881). After him are Arne Selmosson (1931), Gösta Ekman (1939), Ivar Jacobson (1939), Hasse Jeppson (1925), Sven Lindqvist (1932), and Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among anthropologists born in Sweden, Bengt Danielsson ranks 1